Saturday 4 July 2015

“They acted like they were doing us a favour.” -Yemi Alade on why she slammed BET:




Singer Yemi Alade criticised the 2015 BET Award after Ghana’s Stonebwoy was declared the winner of the BET Best International Act: Africa.
“AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY!,” she wroteAnd then she called them out for scheduling the Africa prize five hours before the main event.
But she has come out to give some sort of explanation as to why she slammed the award on her page after the winner was announced:
“To be honest, we do not want to talk about the BET saga again,” she told Saturday Punch. “The reason I voiced out was because I felt Africans deserve better treatment; we put a lot of work into our craft and we deserve to be celebrated like our colleagues abroad. They should not just nominate Africans and give us our awards in private, we should also be celebrated and mix with our colleagues abroad. Beyond the ceremony and party, mingling with our colleagues at such events would also help us make new friends.
“It would be funny for people to say that my remark on social media was because I did not win the award. That would be a very wrong thought. The communication with them was not so pleasant. They made it look as if they were doing us a favour. My thought on whether I would be nominated again at the BET Awards is very simple, God blesses and not man. If God keeps blessing me, you cannot hate but join the party,” she said.”
But that still didn’t explain why she so quickly deleted the rant from her page. See below:
Yemi Alade Rants
When bae says he misses you…..#imaginaryBae By the way…@bet_intl AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY.!!! ..IT IS WRONG TO NOMINATE HUGE AFRICAN STARS AND PUBLICLY TRY TO HUMILIATE AFRICA.WHY ON EARTH IS THE AFRICAN CATEGORY OF THE AWARDS HELD HOURS BEFORE THE “MAIN EVENT? IF AFRICAN ARTISTS ARE NOT WORTHY IN YOUR SIGHT.PLS BY ALL MEANS CANCEL,DELETE,OMMIT THE “BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT (AFRICA) CATEGORY OUT OF THIS GLORIFIED AWARD. THIS IS WRONG! !! WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Mainwhile… PLS NEXT TIME,CREDIBILITY OVER PADDYPADDY!! CREDIBILITY !!” 

3 comments:

  1. The organizers of BET Awards should show some respect to us. Afterall,na here all of them come from

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    1. Don't mind them. So easy for them to scream racism,this is discrimination.

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